Sonia Sotomayor Quotes

Asuka is just insane, and she has such a different background and things I've never seen before, so I'd say I'm a little bit more worried of Asuka because I don't know much about her.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.

Change is very scary.

Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

I guess we resist changing, because we are afraid of change.

We need to find ways to elevate the expectations, particularly of those individuals who may start off on a lower socioeconomic rung, who might be seen as disadvantaged. But, you know, the reason I say be seen as disadvantaged, it's because life is so short, and there's so much that can change.

I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

Multiculturalism isn't about culture, it's about power.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

I think sometimes people are scared to change. Sometimes people are scared to do something different, especially if they've been successful at something.

I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London.'

I don't seek discomfort. But, very often, you realise that what you fear is actually quite ephemeral; something's different, something's unfamiliar; therefore, it must be worse.

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

I look forward to change, but there is a part of me that absolutely dreads it.

I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.

I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family home in a middle-class suburb. That doesn't mean I didn't experience hardship, but to me it's not about that, it's about the future and where we are trying to take it.

If one day someone came up to me and was like, 'Look, you're never going to act again,' I don't know what I would do.

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.